The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, Summer/Autumn, 2004http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62015
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:47:43 GMT2015-03-03T18:47:43Z?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Faminehttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/60517
?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine
McGregor, Pat
This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase compared to the wage that current information is available on. Estimation reveals a lag of four weeks existed between price changes occurring and adjustment to the money wages. Most seriously, the administrators systematically failed to take full account of the extent of price changes.
Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/605172004-01-01T00:00:00ZEquity in the utilisation of health care in Irelandhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/60126
Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland
Layte, Richard; Nolan, Brian
This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income
distribution in Ireland ? that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need
irrespective of income. We find that almost all services, apart from dental and optician services,
are used more by those at the lower end of the income distribution, but that this group also have
the greatest need for health care. The comparison of health need to health care delivery across the
income distribution without standardising for confounding factors suggests that those in higher
income groups receive more health care for a given health status indicating inequity. However, need for health care is highest among the elderly and this group also tend to be at the bottom of the income distribution. Once we standardise for age, sex and location we find that hospital services are distributed equitably across the income distribution, whereas GP and prescription services tend to be pro-poor (used more by those with lower incomes for a given health status) and dental and optician services tend to be pro-rich (used more by those with higher incomes for a given health status).
Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/601262004-01-01T00:00:00ZInter-industry wage differentials in Irelandhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/60045
Inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of
access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure not simply overall differentials in the average wage across sectors, but also the extent to which these are associated with a range of employee, job, employer and sectoral characteristics. The results show that there are substantial differences in earnings across industrial sectors in Ireland, predominantly but not only reflecting differences in measured human capital of workers and attributes of their jobs. While unobserved individual and job characteristics may underpin the remaining differentials, efficiency wage or rent-sharing could also be playing a role. Including a range of firm and sectoral characteristics relevant to the latter does not markedly alter the scale of inter-industry differentials, but firm fixed effects seem important. The dispersion of wages across industries, controlling for observed employee, job and employer characteristics, is quite high in Ireland compared to other industrialised countries.
Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/600452004-01-01T00:00:00ZJob creation and destruction in Northern Ireland: 1973-1993http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59869
Job creation and destruction in Northern Ireland: 1973-1993
Roper, Stephen
Job creation and destruction estimates are made for Northern Ireland manufacturing
using the ARD database. International comparisons suggest job creation and destruction rates in Northern Ireland were below those elsewhere. Job turnover rates exhibit the standard properties, however, with counter-cyclical job destruction and pro-cyclical job creation. A number of other key results emerge. First, small firms are the only size band for which the net change in employment was positive. Second, job turnover in small firms is less cyclical than that in larger companies. Third, firm contraction and expansion were more important sources of job creation and destruction in Northern Ireland than in the UK as a whole.
Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/598692004-01-01T00:00:00Z